Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami6/30/2023 ![]() Which enables Kafka and others to pass from one world to another to gain knowledge and self-knowledge.īoth Kafka and Nakata flee when police encounter the missing teenager and old man for questioning about the murder of Kafka’s father. Nakata murders Kafka’s father, and follows him to Takamatsu, where he is guided by intuition to perform a series of magical acts, which involve opening and then closing the “entrance stone”. A young trucker, Hoshino, is drawn to Nakata’s journey and helps him. His search for a cat leads him to find great evil and sets him on the path to reestablishing the universe, which has strayed from what it should be. Now an elder, Nakata supplements his disability income by finding the lost pets of local families. In exchange for his memory and intellect, the accident left him with the ability to speak to cats. As a result, you have no memories of the past or the ability to form memories in the present. Victim of a strange childhood accident that changed him forever, Nakata navigates the world in a simple and organic way. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the novel progresses, her life story and her separate journey to Takamatsu intertwine with those of Kafka. Each chapter narrated by Kafka alternates with a chapter about a mysterious older man named Nakata. ![]()
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